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I totally agree with the decision by the COSATU General Secretary,
Zwelinzima Vavi, not to respond to the diatribe by Kenny Kunene - now
joined by ANCYL President, Julius Malema. They do not deserve the
respect of being taken seriously. They condemn themselves out of their
own mouths and have exposed to the world the rotten, immoral world in
which these greedy capitalist exploiters live - a decadent sewer of
conspicuous consumption.

On behalf of all the women of South Africa, I must however condemn in
the strongest terms these men's attitude to the women who were
photographed at the notorious party. These half-naked women are being
treated as sex objects - little more than party accessories, to
decorate the room and provide some lewd enjoyment to the invited men,
as they enjoyed their sushi, champagne and whisky.

It is all too typical of men in privileged positions of wealth and
power to treat women with contempt, as lesser beings who are there to
be exploited. Until all men recognise all women as equals and treat
them with them total respect, we will not be able to say that we have
transformed our society. For as long as we still exploit women as
objects for the gratification of rich men, we will not be a liberated
society.

As the great revolutionary leader Samora Machel said: "Just as the
struggle of African women cannot be waged and pursued outside the
context of the struggle of our peoples for the liberation and
emancipation of our continent, so the freedom of Africa cannot be
effective if it does not lead, concretely, to the liberation of the
women of Africa".